Earth as an Island – Year 6 DT project – Reusing Waste Plastic

As we come to the end of our Earth as an Island topic, Year 6 have been thinking about one of the greatest threats to our world and our islands – plastic pollution.

With this in mind, we set about designing ways in which we could reduce the amount of plastic we throw into the ocean by reusing it – turning our waste into something useful.

We followed our design process:

Evaluate existing products and decide upon a design criteria

Explore the materials in focussed practical tasks: how can we cut, join and decorate plastic.

Create several design ideas based on our criteria and FPTs.

Finalise our design.

Collect the materials and make!

After the finished product was complete, we evaluated our designs. Our results were outstanding!